Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteenis an American musician, singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", Springsteen is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, Americana, working class and sometimes political sentiments centered on his native New Jersey, his distinctive voice and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running over three hours in length...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth23 September 1949
CityLong Beach, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.
I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.
If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
I think politics come out of psychology.
But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.
When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.
Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.
The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.